Where does “guaranty” come from?
Guaranty comes from Old French guarantie, derived from Frankish warjand, ultimately from the Frankish root warjan meaning to protect or defend.
guaranty (English): An undertaking to answer for the payment of some...
Definitions
- An undertaking to answer for the payment of some...
Ancestry of “guaranty”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old French | guarantie | assurance; promise; guarantee; safety; security;... |
| 2 | Old French | guarantir | to protect |
| 3 | English | undefined | Lacking a definition or value; That does not have... |
| 4 | English | Un- | — |
| 5 | Middle English | un- | — |
| 6 | Old English | un- | negation or absence of: un-, non-; bad; forms... |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | n̥- | not, un- |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ne | not |